tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39456332024-03-13T11:39:15.004-07:00Greymarch's Website for Advanced Internet ResearchStuff I find interestingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-45210203658359856802017-12-28T06:02:00.001-07:002017-12-28T06:18:34.051-07:00Prequels SW > Disney SW<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.42857em; margin-bottom: 0.357143em; padding: 0px;">
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When I saw this scene in AOTC, I wanted to cry with joy. It's perfect. IT IS EXACTLY what Star Wars is about. It is exactly what George Lucas was trying to show us. Lucas was creating a morality all of us could follow. This is what made Star Wars so special. SW is deeper than typical sci-fi. It's deeper than just about anything ever put on the big screen. Lucas is helping to explain why we even exist.</div>
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Lucas is explaining why Jedi behave the way they behave. He is perhaps explaining how we all should behave. Is he correct? Maybe not, but dang, at least he is trying. At least he is giving SW depth and meaning. In The Last Jedi, Luke didnt come anywhere close to explaining this kind of stuff to Rey, and Luke certainly knew the morality of the jedi.</div>
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Attachment is forbidden...why? Because attachment leads to fear of losing something. We know how the rest goes...fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. Attachment is the path to ruin. The path to the dark side. Possession is merely attachment to a physical entity. Disney is incapable of writing this kind of depth; of understanding morality and humanity is at the core of Star Wars. I want to cry, and it certainly isnt out of joy.</div>
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DISNEY RUINED ALL OF IT.</div>
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On December 14th, 2017...mark it down...Disney ruined Star Wars. The stuff that takes place in The Last Jedi (TLJ) has literally rendered the first-six Star Wars movies meaningless. Disney is wandering in the woods with the new SW movies.<br />
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Lucas wrote awful dialog and directed awful acting for the prequels, but at least the plot and story of the prequels felt like Star Wars. Lucas kept his universe together, and stayed true to his characters. The Force Awakens (TFA) and especially TLJ dont feel like Star Wars movies. Disney has either killed or rendered moot all the OT characters. TFA and TLJ are just trash space-opera flicks. Neither are SW films.<br />
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Lucas gave us a morality play of light vs dark and why each existed: Disney simply doesnt want to bother with that kind of depth. </div>
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Lucas made characters which would last generations. Is there a SW character Disney has created which anyone will remember 50 years from now?<br />
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Disney creates so much hype, and and has so much clout in the the industry, that their SW films suffer from a "honeymoon effect." Critics dont want to give the Disney SW films a bad review, for fear of suffering the wrath of the Disney juggernaut (and if you dont believe Disney will take revenge against the media, ask the LA Times earlier this year how Disney treats those who attack the Mouse.) Fans who see the movie before it opens wont admit to themselves that the Disney SW films stink, because these fans are emotionally and financially invested in Disney's SW films....to admit the Disney SW films stink right after you view one is to admit you have committed an error devoting yourself to these films. Everyone has an ego.</div>
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What Disney and Rian Johnson did to Luke Skywalker is unforgivable. I get angrier and angrier the more I think about how Luke's potential was not only wasted, but ruined the legacy of arguably the greatest movie hero in cinematic history. George Lucas has to be livid. A few days ago, when Lucas finished watching TLJ, he said to a reporter TLJ was "beautifully filmed" and walked away. A backhanded compliment if there ever was one.</div>
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Luke was pro-active. Luke faced his fears and his demons. Lucas clearly wanted Luke to be a hero. So what does Disney do with Luke? He stays on a freakin' island the whole film, and even when we thinks he leaves the island, its just a mirage. Then Luke commits suicide alone on the island. Unreal. If you dont feel betrayed by Disney after watching episode 8, then you dont truly understand Star Wars. I cant find a way any true SW fan could accept this film. It's honestly beyond me.<br />
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Disney will keep making bad SW films as long as we keep giving Disney our hard-earned cash. Send Disney a message. Dont see TLJ, or if you have already seen it, dont see it again. Encourage others to not waste their money seeing TLJ.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-87513508430876722892014-04-29T17:05:00.001-07:002014-04-29T17:50:09.806-07:00We meet again, at last...Star Wars 7 news!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, some solid news on Star Wars, Episode 7:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, what characters are these new actors playing? My speculation could be way, way off, but I am going to give my two cents anyhow:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John Boyega: Luke Skywalker's apprentice, and the co-lead of the younger actors.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daisy Ridley: The daughter of Solo and Leia. the other co-lead of the younger actors.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adam Driver: The young baddie. Either a Sith or dark jedi. He will be around for all three movies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oscar Isaac: A new republic officer or a rogue-ish type scoundrel who tries to sweep Daisy off her feet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andy Serkis: The comedic alien. Not childish like Jar Jar. All CGI.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Domhnall Gleeson: The spitting image of an SS-officer. He will be a young, cunning Imperial officer who is around for all three movies. A Thrawn-like character, but definitely not Thrawn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Max Von Sydow: An old, wise, Imperial officer who survived the Battle of Endor and wants revenge against the New Republic. He finds Driver and re-gathers the imperial fleet. I suspect Sydow dies at the end of SW7 in the same way Cushing died in episode 4. Sydow is 85 years old. You do not cast an 85 year old man to appear in a new trilogy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prediction #1: Either Hamill or Ford dies in SW7, at hands of Driver. I think it's more likely to be Ford than Hamill. I think Ford has the biggest part of the three original cast members in SW7, so his death at the hands of Driver will really make movie-goers hate Driver, which is what Disney really wants, and needs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prediction #2: The plot of the three new movies will have two main stories. The first follows Boyega, the second follows Ridley, much in the same way the plots of the original series follow Luke and Han/Leia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prediction #3: No twins, which I would not have predicted a year ago. I dont see any possible twins in this cast. It doesnt fit. Clearly Ridley would have to be one of the twins, so who is the other? There is no other in this cast list.</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-14505216025263883212013-04-21T09:26:00.000-07:002013-04-21T11:01:17.038-07:00The shelf-life of an applauding spiral galaxy<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The shelf-life of certain foods. Most slightly longer than the shelf-life of a typical Zynga Facebook game:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5987460/put-an-end-to-spoiled-wasted-food-with-this-handy-chart">http://lifehacker.com/5987460/put-an-end-to-spoiled-wasted-food-with-this-handy-chart</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2291254/New-drug-developed-using-compound-red-wine-help-humans-live-150.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2291254/New-drug-developed-using-compound-red-wine-help-humans-live-150.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Is nothing something?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Wonderful website which cleverly shows the scale of everything in the universe. From the smallest pieces of an atom, to the largest galaxies:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://htwins.net/scale2/">http://htwins.net/scale2/</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com79tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-32196344097214446402013-02-23T11:02:00.000-07:002013-02-23T11:10:14.990-07:00Will Anne Hathaway sing Daisy on Oscar night?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- My 2013 Academy Award predictions:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best picture: Argo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Director: Spielberg. Weak director list this year. Spielberg wins it because, well, it's Spielberg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones. Toughest category to predict this year. Also the category with the most talent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway. Lock of the night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why the HAL 9000 sang Daisy towards the end of the movie 2001:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- When did Americans lose their British accents? It's the opposite way around. Until the 1800s, the British sounded like Americans:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Best and worst countries to be born in. Normally, if America wasn't at the top of such a list, I would argue America should be at the top of the list. Not any more. America's crushing debt and relentless spending addiction probably no longer makes it presently the best place to be born:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/01/07/a-surprising-map-of-the-best-and-worst-countries-to-be-born-into-today/">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/01/07/a-surprising-map-of-the-best-and-worst-countries-to-be-born-into-today/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why making robots is so damn difficult:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why New York City drops a giant, shiny sphere every New Years Eve:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Solutions to the top ten kitchen annoyances:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5964785/top-10-kitchen-annoyances-solved-by-genius">http://lifehacker.com/5964785/top-10-kitchen-annoyances-solved-by-genius</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-59704359908494819632012-11-19T09:45:00.001-07:002012-11-19T09:49:28.100-07:00Ironic Ulfberht exits on the right<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Google says driver-less cars are coming in the next five years. That's five years too late. Now! Now! Now!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.techspot.com/news/50305-google-says-driverless-cars-are-coming-within-the-next-five-years.html">http://www.techspot.com/news/50305-google-says-driverless-cars-are-coming-within-the-next-five-years.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Use a lightly-colored mouse pad to conserve the batteries in your mouse. Makes sense, from a physics point of view:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5947439/use-a-lightly-colored-mouse-pad-to-conserve-your-mouses-battery-life">http://lifehacker.com/5947439/use-a-lightly-colored-mouse-pad-to-conserve-your-mouses-battery-life</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- 32 of the greatest unscripted movie scenes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The 50 most dangerous cities in the world:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-viking-sword.html">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-viking-sword.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Number of enrolled university students falls for the first time since 1996. Expect to see this trend continue:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How to tell if a highway exit will be on the left side of the highway, or the right side. I had no idea!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5953223/quickly-tell-whether-the-highway-exit-will-be-on-the-left-or-the-right">http://lifehacker.com/5953223/quickly-tell-whether-the-highway-exit-will-be-on-the-left-or-the-right</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Hat-tip to my brother for the following article. Detroit has it's very own monster-mystery. The Nain Rouge:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/the-nain-rouge-a-detroit-ghost-story/">http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/the-nain-rouge-a-detroit-ghost-story/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Fantastic article on how we live in the age of irony, and why that is a bad thing:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/?smid=tw-share">http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/?smid=tw-share</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-62169599134440305042012-09-24T20:41:00.001-07:002012-09-24T20:44:06.989-07:00Median age of the driverless interstate<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Secrets of the Ford Mustang:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/04/26/secrets-ford-mustang/">http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/04/26/secrets-ford-mustang/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Median age by state. If I lived in Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, New Hampshire and Florida, roughly over half the people I meet would be older than me:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/median-age-by-state.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/median-age-by-state.htm</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Let's stick with demographics. Think America's demographics are rapidly changing? Take a look at the problems facing China:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/china-s-population-crash-could-upend-u-s-policy.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-30/china-s-population-crash-could-upend-u-s-policy.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Warren Buffett is a table-tennis fan, and he puts his money into one of America's rising table tennis stars:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303916904577378420623440272.html?mod=e2tw">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303916904577378420623440272.html?mod=e2tw</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Pick a place on earth, and see the exact opposite side of the globe. Hint: most of the time, you will be in the middle of an ocean:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.antipodemap.com/">http://www.antipodemap.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Driverless cars approved (kind of) in Nevada:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/9252657/Driverless-cars-approved-by-Nevada.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/9252657/Driverless-cars-approved-by-Nevada.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Most popular months for birthdays:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.labnol.org/internet/most-popular-birthday-months/21283/">http://www.labnol.org/internet/most-popular-birthday-months/21283/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The Fortune 500 top companies:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/full_list/">http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/full_list/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- U.S. Interstates as a subway map:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://visual.ly/us-interstates-subway-map">http://visual.ly/us-interstates-subway-map</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-59527709263592507502012-04-30T10:08:00.001-07:002012-04-30T10:11:44.174-07:00Alan Stoob finds Sith war criminals at Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Price<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Red-heads experience pain differently than others:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://io9.com/5890463/redheads-experience-pain-differently-than-the-rest-of-us">http://io9.com/5890463/redheads-experience-pain-differently-than-the-rest-of-us</a>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Alan Stoob, Britain's premier Nazi-hunter. Hilarious website. Good stuff:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nazihunteralan.com/">http://www.nazihunteralan.com/</a>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- New York City Jedi training academy. If this group was more about teaching the life-lessons and morality of the Jedi, instead of teaching nerdy kids how to swing a stick, I would be all for it. Otherwise, it seems kind of creepy:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/nyregion/flynn-michael-trains-new-jedis-in-the-ways-of-the-force.html?_r=3&hp">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/nyregion/flynn-michael-trains-new-jedis-in-the-ways-of-the-force.html?_r=3&hp</a>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Woman considers voluntarily having her withered arm removed, and replaced with a bionic limb. Will see more and more of this dilemma in the future:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17183890">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17183890</a>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Global time-zone map. Insanely useful:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/">http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/</a>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Curry's triangle paradox:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://io9.com/5898961/how-do-you-get-nothing-from-something-with-currys-paradox-of-course">http://io9.com/5898961/how-do-you-get-nothing-from-something-with-currys-paradox-of-course</a>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Countries that drive on the left-side of the road. Basically, most countries that were a part of the British empire once automobiles were invented:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg</a>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Mad Men critique by someone who walked the walk:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/04/reviewing-mad-men-world-someone-who-was-there/50851/#">http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/04/reviewing-mad-men-world-someone-who-was-there/50851/#</a>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Middle-age is an evolutionary trait:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/evolution-has-given-humans-a-huge-advantage-over-most-other-animals-middle-age/2012/03/12/gIQAtVnccS_print.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/evolution-has-given-humans-a-huge-advantage-over-most-other-animals-middle-age/2012/03/12/gIQAtVnccS_print.html</a>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alone together. Technology makes it uber-easy to communicate with each other, yet we are more alone than ever. Great read:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?_r=1">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?_r=1</a>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Republicans more informed, more open-minded than Democrats. Every Republican I have ever met inherently knows this. It's nice to see a scientific survey prove it:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/22/science-say-gop-voters-better-informed-open-minded/">http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/22/science-say-gop-voters-better-informed-open-minded/</a>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-14337891407609447842012-02-26T10:28:00.004-07:002012-02-26T10:56:45.740-07:00<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I almost didn't post my 2012 Oscar picks. Tough to motivate myself this year. We are well into the 21st century, yet a black and white, silent movie is going to win most of the major awards. My picks:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Picture: The Artist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Director: <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Michel Hazanavicius</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Best Actor: </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Jean Dujardin. Clooney won a few years ago for Syriana. The academy prefers actors who stretch, and play difficult roles. Clooney is simply playing himself in The Descendants.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Actress: Viola Davis. Last night over dinner, the son of a friend of mine explained to all of us that the Academy award voters are mostly old white guys. This is correct, however the voting academy is still one of the most politically-correct entities on the planet. Davis wins.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer. Plummer for best supporting actor, and The Artist for best picture, are the two locks of the night.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer. See Best Actress</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">This cat at the NY Times seems to have a good feel for who will win the 2012 Academy awards:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/movies/awardsseason/the-carpetbaggers-2012-oscar-predictions.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/movies/awardsseason/the-carpetbaggers-2012-oscar-predictions.html?pagewanted=all</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- For car buyers, it's tougher to end up with a lemon:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvGaZXiSG6GL1qG7aXj2dbiCb9DA">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvGaZXiSG6GL1qG7aXj2dbiCb9DA</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- "Who was the best pilot I ever saw?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Soprano's was one of the best TV series ever created. I was certainly hooked on it. It created a whole new genre and style of television, but was that a good thing?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/did-the-sopranos-do-more-harm-than-good-hbo-and-th,69596/">http://www.avclub.com/articles/did-the-sopranos-do-more-harm-than-good-hbo-and-th,69596/</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- 20 common grammar mistakes:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://litreactor.com/columns/20-common-grammar-mistakes-that-almost-everyone-gets-wrong">http://litreactor.com/columns/20-common-grammar-mistakes-that-almost-everyone-gets-wrong</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why do astronauts crave spicy foods?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/23/147294191/why-astronauts-crave-tabasco-sauce">http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/23/147294191/why-astronauts-crave-tabasco-sauce</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-83436742865075338772012-02-17T15:08:00.003-07:002012-02-17T15:16:19.105-07:00John Tyler and Lewis Carroll prefer Jedi Shadows over Hunters<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px;">"Why is a raven like a writing desk?"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://io9.com/5872014/the-answer-to-the-most-famous-unanswerable-fantasy-riddle">http://io9.com/5872014/the-answer-to-the-most-famous-unanswerable-fantasy-riddle</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Having a grand time playing Star Wars, The Old Republic. Plenty of people have asked me to compare The Old Republic to World of Warcraft. Here is what I say to them: if you have never played an online game, and want to start one, I would recommend Warcraft over Star Wars. If you have never played an online game, and you are a Star Wars junkie, I would recommend Star Wars over Warcraft. The story of how SWTOR got created:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/01/20/star-wars-the-old-republic-the-story-behind-a-galactic-gamble/#/0">http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/01/20/star-wars-the-old-republic-the-story-behind-a-galactic-gamble/#/0</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Former president John Tyler (1841-1845) has living grandchildren. How is that possible?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/former-president-john-tyler-1790-1862-grandchildren-still-191230189.html">http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/former-president-john-tyler-1790-1862-grandchildren-still-191230189.html</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The most popular sports in America:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/mid/1508/articleId/950/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/Default.aspx">http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/mid/1508/articleId/950/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/Default.aspx</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Detroit's infamous purple gang:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=183">http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=183</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why is Scotland Yard named "Scotland Yard?" The Yard is located in London:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.historybytheyard.co.uk/scotland_yard_name.htm">http://www.historybytheyard.co.uk/scotland_yard_name.htm</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The last World War I veteran passed away:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/02/very-last-world-war-i-veteran-has-died/48402/">http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/02/very-last-world-war-i-veteran-has-died/48402/</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The average life-span has nearly doubled in the past 100 years, but the maximum age attainable has been rather static. Why is that?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://singularityhub.com/2012/02/14/while-average-lifespans-increase-114-remains-a-stubborn-and-mysterious-upper-bound-why/">http://singularityhub.com/2012/02/14/while-average-lifespans-increase-114-remains-a-stubborn-and-mysterious-upper-bound-why/</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- There are billions of stars in the typical galaxy, and there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe. Let that sink in for a bit. In our Milky Way galaxy, there is likely at least one planet for each star:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203436904577154803588270744.html">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203436904577154803588270744.html</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Stubborn body myths:</span><br />
<a href="http://lifehacker.com/5873922/10-stubborn-body-myths-that-just-wont-die-debunked-by-science"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://lifehacker.com/5873922/10-stubborn-body-myths-that-just-wont-die-debunked-by-science</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-555541685224978102012-01-04T13:57:00.002-07:002012-01-04T13:59:29.182-07:00Snoopy and Hobbes avoid starvation<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- I am not a big fan of religious parables, but this one does a perfect job of explaining the core difference between good and evil:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.tpub.com/religion/shortstories/newsubmit/newpage37.htm"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.tpub.com/religion/shortstories/newsubmit/newpage37.htm</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The top six websites you should visit if you love to drink:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-6-websites-visit-love-drink/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-6-websites-visit-love-drink/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The making of a Charlie Brown Christmas. Linus's soliloquy on the true meaning of Christmas might be the most earnest moment in TV history, and certainly one of the top five moments in animated TV history.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/a-charlie-brown-christmas-the-gospel-truth-behind-how-a-humble-peanuts-holiday-classic-defied-the-odds/2011/12/02/gIQA0NNPWO_blog.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/a-charlie-brown-christmas-the-gospel-truth-behind-how-a-humble-peanuts-holiday-classic-defied-the-odds/2011/12/02/gIQA0NNPWO_blog.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Let's stick with the Peanut's animation vibe. Seven things you didn't know about It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-7-things-you-dont-know-about-tonights-peanuts-special/2011/10/26/gIQAQPZhKM_blog.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-7-things-you-dont-know-about-tonights-peanuts-special/2011/10/26/gIQAQPZhKM_blog.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- How to categorize fantasy literature:</span><br />
<a href="http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0000/7796/files/Dark_Fantasy_2.jpg?101916"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0000/7796/files/Dark_Fantasy_2.jpg?101916</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why Robert Scott was doomed to lose the race to the South Pole (and ultimately perish due to his decisions.)</span><br />
<a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/survival/stories/why-the-british-were-doomed-to-lose-the-race-to-the-south-pole-6617203"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/survival/stories/why-the-british-were-doomed-to-lose-the-race-to-the-south-pole-6617203</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- An extensive illustration of Batman's costumes. The illustrator calls this list all of the "significant" costumes. Being a Batman junkie, I could certainly argue with this claim:</span><br />
<a href="http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/batman-infographic.jpg"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/batman-infographic.jpg</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- A grown-up Calvin and Hobbes fighting with an adult, evil Christopher Robins and Winnie the Pooh. Wonderful! Wonderful!</span><br />
<a href="http://io9.com/5871516/behold-calvin-and-hobbes-all-grown-up-++-and-fighting-an-evil-winnie-the-pooh"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://io9.com/5871516/behold-calvin-and-hobbes-all-grown-up-++-and-fighting-an-evil-winnie-the-pooh</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- IBM predicts five new technologies in the next five years:</span><br />
<a href="http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2011/12/the-next-5-in-5-our-forecast-of-five-innovations-that-will-alter-the-landscape-within-five-years.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2011/12/the-next-5-in-5-our-forecast-of-five-innovations-that-will-alter-the-landscape-within-five-years.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Five over-rated comedians. I dont agree with the first few sentences of the article, but I definitely agree these five comedians aren't even vaguely entertaining:</span><br />
<a href="http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2011/12/31/george-carlin-wasnt-funny/?singlepage=true"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2011/12/31/george-carlin-wasnt-funny/?singlepage=true</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-32819161777439043782011-11-29T15:24:00.007-07:002011-11-29T18:46:44.251-07:00Shoelaces suspects the Batman has lupus<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why most people are right-handed:</span><br />
<a href="http://io9.com/5840005/why-are-most-people-right+handed"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://io9.com/5840005/why-are-most-people-right+handed</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Very interactive chart of the top 50 most populous countries:</span><br />
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204528204577009922309104512.html?mod=e2tw"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204528204577009922309104512.html?mod=e2tw</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Do you really need to go to college? The amount of financial debt you accrue, and the huge number of worthless degrees companies are not interested in, makes college less tempting:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/11/college-has-been-oversold.html">http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/11/college-has-been-oversold.html</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- It use to be the case that most great scientists made their wonderful discoveries before the age of 25. That's no longer true:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45198217/ns/technology_and_science-science#.TrnEo1YbfpU">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45198217/ns/technology_and_science-science#.TrnEo1YbfpU</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Further versus farther:</span><br />
<a href="http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/further-versus-farther.aspx"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/further-versus-farther.aspx</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bruce Wayne's medical history, as charted by his physician. Fun read:</span><br />
<a href="http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2011/11/14/patient-bw-dob-2161971/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2011/11/14/patient-bw-dob-2161971/</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The very first photograph:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/diy-it/the-story-of-the-first-photograph/288">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/diy-it/the-story-of-the-first-photograph/288</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- What is a QR code, and how does it work?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/seo/those-barcode-looking-things-theyre-called-qr-codes-heres-what-they-do/4339">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/seo/those-barcode-looking-things-theyre-called-qr-codes-heres-what-they-do/4339</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Historical college football stats:</span><br />
<a href="http://football.stassen.com/records/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://football.stassen.com/records/</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- When you woke up Sunday morning, November 27th, did the air you breathe smell a little bit fresher? Did your food taste better that day? Perhaps the pain in your hip disappeared? Your dog stopped chewing on your sneakers? You found a missing $20 bill in your jeans pocket? You suddenly realized you have more work vacation than you had previously thought? Your car stopped making a strange noise? Construction ended on a stretch of freeway you use every day? This is why:</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy7YWekqIv8kALNOkx7Iz1vigPwAmVeB7DRhuasJuQLM6E8LTfPyLsPupodBF5y-M4qV4DjKrCjEjXXDVlLYyzqU4ZuC4Xu-44uPAzHzaFo_7aTQRE5Dp7M1CFxwx3HLpJlmGo/s1600/MichiganDefeatsOhio.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy7YWekqIv8kALNOkx7Iz1vigPwAmVeB7DRhuasJuQLM6E8LTfPyLsPupodBF5y-M4qV4DjKrCjEjXXDVlLYyzqU4ZuC4Xu-44uPAzHzaFo_7aTQRE5Dp7M1CFxwx3HLpJlmGo/s640/MichiganDefeatsOhio.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> FINALLY!!! After eight long, unbearable years of gut-wrenching madness, Michigan defeated The Great Evil. The universe has been set right. Love, joy, happiness and purpose return to our lives.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-90032104626420156952011-10-10T16:33:00.000-07:002011-10-10T16:36:39.926-07:00After the Big Bang, Polk and Einstein rejuvenate Motown<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The five stages of the universe. Stages three, four and five (which make up a vast majority of the timeline) won't be much fun:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.fathom.com/course/10701055/session1.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.fathom.com/course/10701055/session1.html</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Ten tech concepts you have always wanted to learn:</span><br />
<a href="http://lifehacker.com/5845665/top-10-tech-concepts-you-always-wanted-to-learn-about-but-never-did"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://lifehacker.com/5845665/top-10-tech-concepts-you-always-wanted-to-learn-about-but-never-did</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Top five scientists. Let's replace Turing with Isaac Newton (how the heck do you make a top scientist list without Newton!?!?) and let's replace Linus Pauling with Michael Farraday. The rest I can live with:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=17431792&nid=968"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=17431792&nid=968</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- How much do the top tech companies pay their employees? Search by company and city:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://techcompanypay.com/">http://techcompanypay.com/</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Name the 44 U.S. presidents in ten minutes. I got 41 out of 44. I struggle with the presidents from 1836 to 1860 and the presidents from 1876 to 1896. There were some real lemons during those two time-frames:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/games/Trivia-US-Presidents.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.smithsonianmag.com/games/Trivia-US-Presidents.html</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Is the city of Detroit finally starting to turn it around?</span><br />
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204294504576617280722057142.html?mod=e2tw"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204294504576617280722057142.html?mod=e2tw</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-10-09/detroit-comeback-lions/50713354/1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-10-09/detroit-comeback-lions/50713354/1</span></a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-56937281577621399702011-09-23T11:02:00.000-07:002011-09-23T11:04:28.085-07:00Color-blind Super Grover forgets his ATM pin<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Bill Belichick wants the extra-point to die in the NFL. So do I. Complete waste of time. Give the fans what they want. More action:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Bill-Belichick-wants-the-extra-point-to-die?urn=nfl-wp5693">http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Bill-Belichick-wants-the-extra-point-to-die?urn=nfl-wp5693</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Super Grover!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Grover">http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Grover</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Ten myths about TV:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://io9.com/5834269/10-myths-about-television-that-fans-and-viewers-buy-into">http://io9.com/5834269/10-myths-about-television-that-fans-and-viewers-buy-into</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Geeky PIN numbers:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://spikedmath.com/285.html">http://spikedmath.com/285.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- How to quickly chill a canned or bottled beverage:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://lifehacker.com/221974/chill-a-coke-in-2-minutes?tag=softwarehousehold">http://lifehacker.com/221974/chill-a-coke-in-2-minutes?tag=softwarehousehold</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Guide to living in ten fictional worlds:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/08/pl_fictionalworlds/">http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/08/pl_fictionalworlds/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- How televisions have changed over the past ten years:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://mashable.com/2011/09/07/television-birth-infographic/">http://mashable.com/2011/09/07/television-birth-infographic/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Online color challenge. Test how accurately you see colors. 0 is a perfect score, 100 means you lack the ability to see any shades of color (which makes you functionally blind.) I scored a 5.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77&Lang=en">http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77&Lang=en</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Which college football teams are the most popular? This season if the #2 team on this list beats the #1 team on this list, I suspect the #2 team will leap-frog the #1 team in popularity:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/?src=twrhp">http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/the-geography-of-college-football-fans-and-realignment-chaos/?src=twrhp</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Six movie plot holes you never noticed due to editing. I am a firm believer in the stupidity of the Dark Knight plot hole and the Indiana Jones plot hole. I will argue to my dying days that both those plot holes are perfectly awful and should have never made it into either movie:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_19435_6-movie-plot-holes-you-never-noticed-thanks-to-editing.html">http://www.cracked.com/article_19435_6-movie-plot-holes-you-never-noticed-thanks-to-editing.html</a></span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-22742853022546116122011-08-21T14:37:00.000-07:002011-08-21T14:38:57.480-07:00IBM's favorite science-fiction font<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Life gets better at 50. Why? It sounds incredibly cynical, but makes perfect sense when you think about it, "In some ways, we become relieved of the burden of a future."</span><br />
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/life-gets-better-50-012600469.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://news.yahoo.com/life-gets-better-50-012600469.html</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Ten words you need to stop misspelling:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling">http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The IBM PC turned 30 last week. It's form-factor defined how people think of a desktop PC:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://technologizer.com/2011/08/11/ibm-pc-oddities/">http://technologizer.com/2011/08/11/ibm-pc-oddities/</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Star Wars pilgrims:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2011/08/08/star-wars-tourists-follow-films-around-globe/">http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2011/08/08/star-wars-tourists-follow-films-around-globe/</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Apple passed Exxon in market-cap last week. According to the Dow Jones industrials, Apple is the most valuable company in the world. However, there are many ways to judge the size and value of a company. Given other metrics, Apple isn't even near the top:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2011/08/does-this-metric-make-my-company-look-big.ars/">http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2011/08/does-this-metric-make-my-company-look-big.ars/</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- 42 of the best fonts for writing computer code. I prefer Consolas and Monaco:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/work/FontSurvey.aspx">http://www.codeproject.com/KB/work/FontSurvey.aspx</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Ten science-fiction books that changed the course of history:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://io9.com/5832078/10-science-fiction-books-that-changed-the-course-of-history">http://io9.com/5832078/10-science-fiction-books-that-changed-the-course-of-history</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- 90% of people who buy video-games never finish the game they buy. Lord knows I can be a lazy SoB, but do not lump me into this category. I bend over backwards to finish the games I buy. I have played over 100 single-player computer/console roleplaying games, and I can think of only two I have not finished: Wizard's Crown (super-old computer game) and Dragon Age (currently sitting on my living room shelf.) The reason why people don't finish video games applies to everyone, even if you don't play video games:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/08/17/finishing.videogames.snow/">http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/08/17/finishing.videogames.snow/</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- When you read as many websites, blogs, RSS feeds, message boards and FAQs as I do on a daily basis, you start to notice over-arching patterns in online writing. Online writing is different from academic and journalistic writing, but wants to have the same amount of intellectual credit. Online writers want to have a conversation with you, as long as you subconsciously notice that the writer is striving to be sophisticated, witty, grammatically correct, and a little quirky. Online writers tend to belong to generation-X. Nothing scares a typical gen-x'er more than not being liked. Bloggers often frame each sentence they write to not only entertain you, not only inform you, but to also make sure they don't say anything to you that might cause you to "no longer like them." Passive-aggressive words and phrases are the norm. Starting sentences with words like "sort of", "really", and "pretty much" give a feeling of easy conversation, and also allows the writer to casually distance themselves from future sentences that may offend someone. Am I guilty of this writing style? Sure. If you want to find the person who may be responsible for creating the modern online writing-style, start with David Foster Wallace:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/another-thing-to-sort-of-pin-on-david-foster-wallace.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/another-thing-to-sort-of-pin-on-david-foster-wallace.html</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-17287845986548065062011-08-03T14:02:00.001-07:002011-08-03T14:03:16.777-07:00Dodo bird increases IQ by reading twitter<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Top box-office film franchises:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Ten extinct animals that have been rediscovered:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The electromagnetic spectrum, and how it effects you:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- How many servers does Google use?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Social media propaganda posters:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Prescription medicines for Winnie the Pooh characters:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Are smart people getting smarter?</span><br />
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<a href="http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2011/06/accent-attitudes.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2011/06/accent-attitudes.html</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Tallest mountain versus the deepest ocean trench:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why do baseball managers wear uniforms? Coaches/managers do not wear uniforms in the other major sports.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Bletchley Park, one of the most important sites of World War II, and the birth-place of computer science:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- How most computer programmers get hired (myself included.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Joey Chestnut again dominated the Nathan's July 4th hotdog eating contest. A story about competitive eating injuries:</span><br />
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<a href="http://io9.com/5809813/is-being-left+handed-actually-a-form-of-cognitive-impairment"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://io9.com/5809813/is-being-left+handed-actually-a-form-of-cognitive-impairment</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Tipping etiquette, per country:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- How free is the state you live in?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Most popular programming languages. My favorite is at #4:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- IBM turns 100 years old:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.canada.com/business/computer+pioneer+turns/4956032/story.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.canada.com/business/computer+pioneer+turns/4956032/story.html</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- 15 things you didn't know about outer-space:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/outer-space/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.onlineschools.org/blog/outer-space/</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- An excellent biography of George Lucas:</span><br />
<a href="http://flickeringmyth.blogspot.com/2011/06/hot-rods-droids-george-lucas-profile.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://flickeringmyth.blogspot.com/2011/06/hot-rods-droids-george-lucas-profile.html</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Keeping the synergy of the previous two posts, 10 things you didn't know about Star Wars:</span><br />
<a href="http://io9.com/5813935/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-star-wars"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://io9.com/5813935/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-star-wars</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2011/06/17/america-s-greatest-living-humorists-parker-and-stone-or-larry-david.aspx">http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2011/06/17/america-s-greatest-living-humorists-parker-and-stone-or-larry-david.aspx</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Walking to work, if you pass by a homeless person playing music for hand-outs, do you listen to the music? Do you pay attention at all? What if the person was a WORLD-CLASS musician playing some of the most difficult music ever composed? Do you think you would notice? The Washington Post put this idea to the test. Amazing article:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- A teenager with a useless limb volunteers to have the limb hacked-off, and replaced with a bionic limb:</span><br />
<a href="http://io9.com/5803399/voluntary-amputees-opt-for-bionic-hands-over-real-ones"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://io9.com/5803399/voluntary-amputees-opt-for-bionic-hands-over-real-ones</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- When traveling, why does the trip home always feel shorter? Personally, I think it's because on the way home, we are full of new memories and experiences to think about:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201105/how-long-will-it-take-get-home"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201105/how-long-will-it-take-get-home</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why TV ads are louder than TV shows. Quick spoiler...they aren't:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/st_loudtvads/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/st_loudtvads/</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Tornado myths debunked. The two most reoccurring themes in my nightmares are tornadoes and spiders. I am sure a Freudian psychiatrist would have a field-day with that knowledge:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110528/LIFE/105280302/0/CAROUSEL/?odyssey=nav"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110528/LIFE/105280302/0/CAROUSEL/?odyssey=nav</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- A list of conservative film critics:</span><br />
<a href="http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/2011/06/01/your-guide-to-conservative-film-critics/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/2011/06/01/your-guide-to-conservative-film-critics/</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Internet usage in the U.S:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.steverubel.me/post/6142641472/internet-adoption-chart"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.steverubel.me/post/6142641472/internet-adoption-chart</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The end of the printed book? I scored an android tablet at the Google IO this week. I plan on using it for eBook reading. I have family members who are voracious readers, but haven't bought printed books in months:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383938,00.asp">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383938,00.asp</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The last World War I veteran has died. Thirty years from now, the last WW2 veteran will likely have passed away:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- How many hours of practice does it take to become an expert at something? People who have studied this claim it's around 10,000 hours. One man puts it to the test, using golf as his subject:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.tampabay.com/features/can-a-complete-novice-become-a-golf-pro-with-10000-hours-of-practice/1159357"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.tampabay.com/features/can-a-complete-novice-become-a-golf-pro-with-10000-hours-of-practice/1159357</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Mankind nears the end of the Age of Speed. If you think about it, this is kind of depressing (and significant.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- An interactive map and timeline of every war from the past 500 years. Uber-fun:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-A history of every football helmet, from every team you can think of:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- You have probably seen the 30 second version of this commercial on TV. Clever commercial and very catchy tune. This cat's gotta be the son of The Most Interesting Man in the World. A link to the full commercial and the song:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why humans are more related than you think. Except for Michael Moore. He has no genetic connection to anything carbon-based:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- What Monty Python taught me about the software industry:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why blue-ray has failed to catch on. Two words, "The Stream"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Top 100 quotes from 30 Rock. My favorite? "It's after 6PM. What am I, a farmer?" I want to go there.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- A few years ago I discovered the wonderful writings of Matt Labash. I ignored his stuff (at my own peril) and now I am back reading to his articles. Matt's writing style reminds me of Berkeley Breathed, PJ O'rourke, and Thomas Wolfe, although I don't consider Matt quite as strong a writer as any of those three. I suspect my website readers have quite a bit in common with Matt. Give him a try. At a minimum, read his weekly faux-advice column. You won't be disappointed:</span><br />
<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/01/11/welcome-to-ask-matt-labash/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://dailycaller.com/2010/01/11/welcome-to-ask-matt-labash/</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- How old is old? Depends on where you live:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Another article about humans living much longer lives. Get use to me posting these articles. I truly believe human-life spans will dramatically increase sometime in the next 100 years:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/who-wants-to-live-for-ever-a-scientific-breakthrough-could-mean-humans-live-for-hundreds-of-years-772418.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/who-wants-to-live-for-ever-a-scientific-breakthrough-could-mean-humans-live-for-hundreds-of-years-772418.html</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- 1976 video with William Shatner explaining what a microprocessor is and why microprocessors are important. Fun stuff:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- What certain levels of radiation will do to you, and how much radiation do certain events/places create:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Never build a model train set of your home town in the basement. Here's why:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- All-time domestic movie box-office, adjusted for inflation:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Some of the major motion-picture studios want to stream movies to your television a mere sixty days after they have been released in the theaters, for $30. Thirty bucks, at initial glance, seems like a lot of moolah, but let's think about it further. It might be a bargain. You don't have to drive to the movie theater. You don't have to buy watered-down drinks or nasty junk food for outrageous prices. You always have the best seat in the house, at your own house. You don't have to put up with some annoying kid sitting behind you talking too much or kicking your seat. You don't have to drive home after the movie. It seems to me that movie theaters's days are numbered. Kind of like the drive-in:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/09/theater-owners-ready-to-fight-over-30-60-day-window-vod-movies/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/09/theater-owners-ready-to-fight-over-30-60-day-window-vod-movies/</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Late last night house Republicans struck a deal with Obama and senate democrats to cut 39.8 billion from the 2011 federal budget, thus narrowly avoiding a government shut-down. Being a die-hard, fiscal conservative, you would think I would be rightly pissed-off that Washington is only chopping off 39.8 billion from a budget that is trillions in the red. Well, guess what? I am proud of my representatives in Washington. Democracy is a messy business. Democracy is never easy, and it never goes how you want it to go. Despite the tsunami sweep of Republicans into the house last November, the country is still a very polarized place. There are still millions of liberals and progressives in this country who not only don't want to cut a dime from government spending, but actually want to increase it. We need deep, deep cuts in our federal budget. With the current political climate, and the current political make-up of the house and senate, it's impossible to get those cuts. As representative-R Daniel Issa said last night, "“We control one-half of one-third of the government. I think that when you come as far as we’ve come, $79 billion less than it would have been had we not taken control of one-half of one-third of the government, that’s pretty darn good.”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If house Republicans had pushed for much deeper cuts, one of two things likely would have happened:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. The government shuts-down, and Republicans get blamed. Exact same scenario as 1995. It damaged Republicans in the 1996 elections, and it would have damage Republicans in the 2012 elections. Obama owns the bully-pulpit. It's very easy for a president to turn congress into the bad guys. It's easy because congress is a large group of people, with no true individual who commands as much media attention as the president, making it almost impossible to fight back against the president's individual attacks. Clinton knew this in 1996, and took huge advantage of it. Obama would have done the same.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Making monumental spending cuts right now will highly motivate liberals, progressives and independents to vote in 2012. Too many Americans are completely dependent on the government cheese. You quickly take that money away, and they will turn on you. You want a balanced budget? Putting democrats back in office will accomplish the opposite. America is a slightly center-right country. Elections are often decided by which side is more upset and more motivated to vote. It's a shame democracy works like that. I wish we could get massive cuts quickly passed, but we can't. You want a government that can rapidly make changes? Then you don't want a democracy. Trust me, you don't want to try any other form of government. Here's two articles explaining how we averted the government shut-down and who ultimately won:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Picture: The King's Speech. A mature movie with great acting and earnest dialog. Hollywood doesn't make these kind of movies anymore.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Director: David Fincher. Bleh. Any movie written by Sorkin should be cast aside. I am fed-up with smug characters quickly talking at each other, instead of to each other.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Actor: Colin Firth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Actress: Padme Amidala, opps...I mean Natalie Portman.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale. Pulling for Geoffrey Rush. Rush is incapable of delivering a bad line.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo. The most wide-open race of the night. Anyone could win.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Watson trashed the two human players on Jeopardy. I watched the whole thing. I was slightly disappointed with the computer getting fed questions through text messages, and not listening to Alex Trebek's voice. Seems a little like cheating. How close are we to a computer that can truly think?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- History of the Ford Mustang. Bought a new Mustang a few weeks ago. I have orbited around the Sun almost forty times, and only now am I taking an interest in how an automobile actually works:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Are you getting eight hours of continuous sleep each night? No? Here's why you should not worry:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Ambidextrous people are easier to manipulate than right-handed people. I doubt this is true. Oh wait, well maybe it is. I cannot decide. I am going back and forth. What do you think? I will follow your judgement:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Dumbest reviews of classic movies:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Is science-fiction getting more conservative?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Who was worse, Hitler or Stalin?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Jackie Robinson was a Republican. Very cool:</span><br />
<a href="http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2011/01/jackie-robinson-republican.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2011/01/jackie-robinson-republican.html</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- The case for moving the Super Bowl to a Saturday. NFL regular season games are mostly played on Sundays. For numerous reasons, I have always felt the Super Bowl should be on a Saturday:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- What kind of pasta are you eating? An exhaustive chart:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Five myths about Ronald Reagan:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/04/AR2011020403106.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/04/AR2011020403106.html</span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3945633.post-86460042134452219572011-01-23T10:17:00.001-07:002011-01-23T10:25:08.697-07:00How I met Harry Houdini in a gully<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- What's the difference between storage and stowage?</span><br />
<a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/storage+or+stowage"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/storage+or+stowage</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Why left turns should be illegal:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/14/should-left-turns-be-illegal/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.autoblog.com/2011/01/14/should-left-turns-be-illegal/</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Unsung actors who passed away in 2010. Of this list, Harold Gould and Steven Landesburg jump out at me. Gould was the constant professional and Landesburg always had a subtle layer of silliness behind everything he said:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Best time to buy certain things in 2011:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Want to be a super-hero? Harry Houdini came about as close as anyone. Emulate him:</span><br />
<a href="http://artofmanliness.com/2010/12/20/lessons-in-manliness-from-harry-houdini/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://artofmanliness.com/2010/12/20/lessons-in-manliness-from-harry-houdini/</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- People with names at the end of the alphabet are more likely to be impulsive buyers than those at the front. Makes perfect sense if you think about it:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Want to see a second sun in the sky? The star Betelguese will soon (astronomically speaking) go super-nova, causing a massive burst of starlight which will last for several weeks. Should be completely harmless to us:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Which sports are most popular in the U.S? I should carry this list in my wallet. Incredibly useful list when debating with someone at a sports bar:</span><br />
<a href="http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/football-remains-1-us-sport-15798/harris-favorite-sport-jan-2011jpg/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/football-remains-1-us-sport-15798/harris-favorite-sport-jan-2011jpg/</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- What do the numbers on your credit card really mean? The numbers are not random:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- What is a gully? I was exploring Welchman's gully last week:</span><br />
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